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caveperson
Sign in to saveAlso known as caveman, cavewoman, caveboy, cavegirl, cave people, early modern humans, cavemen
thumb|300px|Le Moustier [[Neanderthals (Charles R. Knight, 1920)]] The caveman is a stock character representative of primitive humans in the Paleolithic. The popularization of the type dates to the early 20th century, when Neanderthals were influentially described as "simian" or "ape-like" by Marcellin Boule and Arthur Keith.
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thumb|300px|Le Moustier [[Neanderthals (Charles R. Knight, 1920)]] The caveman is a stock character representative of primitive humans in the Paleolithic. The popularization of the type dates to the early 20th century, when Neanderthals were influentially described as "simian" or "ape-like" by Marcellin Boule and Arthur Keith.
The term "caveman" has its taxonomic equivalent in the now-obsolete binomial classification of Homo troglodytes (Linnaeus, 1758).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “caveperson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.